Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was born on December 17, 1770 in Bonn. Beethoven was the second oldest child of the court musician and tenor singer Johann van Beethoven. His father was said to be a very violent, intemperate man. He would come home late at night after he finished drinking. He would get Beethoven up out of the bed and make him practice his music lessons. Beethoven wound up developing a sensitivity and vision for music.

By the age of seven he was advanced enough to go in public. A year later the composer Christian Gottlob Neefe began working with Beethoven and he quickly began progressing. Christian Gottlob Neefe introduced him to music by Bach and Mozart.

Beethoven gave his first public performance as a pianist at the age of eight years old. At the age of eleven he received training in piano performing and composition from Neefe, organist and court musician in Bonn.

Beethoven was employed as a musician in the Bonn court orchestra. He was given a paid leave of absence in 1787 to study in Vienna under Mozart. It was not long before he moved back to Bonn because his mother was not doing very well. After his mother died he looked after the rest of the family. He had to look after the family because

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Eventually he called it Fidelio after the name assumed by the heroine Leonora. He was very impatient, impulsive, unreasonable and intolerant. He had short periods of remission but for the last ten years of his life he was totally deaf. ” The works he composed during his middle period consist of: Pastoral Symphony (no. These and other works spread his name and fame. This period of his life was called his “middle Period. People say this was the miracle Beethoven was to work many times. ”

By autumn, he realized that there was no improvement in his hearing.

His piano playing ended in 1808. 4 (a lyrical work) and 5 (the noble and brilliant Emperor) and the Violin Concerto, as well as more chamber works and piano sonatas such as the Waldstein and the Appassionata. It was not as long as his other symphonies. Beethoven remembered his love for nature and the countryside when he moved there and he began to have high hopes again.

Beethoven also wrote ten sonatas for violin and piano, of which the “Kreutzer” and the “Spring” are particularly favorites with audiences. 6 which was about his feeling towards the countryside which he loved), Symphony no.

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